Measure Management & DAX Editor
Anyone who uses PowerBI long enough has had a PBIX with 50-60 measures and it has become time consuming and tedious to mantain. In Excel you can do a quick find/replace to edit several formulas - in PowerBI you need to select each one individually. An "excel-like" interface for editing measures would save a lot of time! This would take PowerBI to the next level regarding productivity. I've prepared a mockup for this as well as a DAX Editor. Let me know what you think.
DaveG
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Checking with Will Thompson and moving status to backlog
83 comments
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Tomislav Mališ
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This is one of most important things to have. Clients do not understand that we can't do bulk changes or migrations of measures.
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Anonymous
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When we work on copies of powerbi and there is minor change in dax but we don't have find replace command for it. It takes too long to go to each dax and make changes.
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Anonymous
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This would be great!, I would also add the possibility of manually evaluate a portion of the DAX formula for previewing the result (like we can do with F9 in excel)
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Arklur
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This would be a huge QoL addition to the tool, I hope it will be implemented soon :).
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Oliver
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Would love this. I'm in the same boat. PBIX file(s) with dozens and dozens of measures and it is unbelievably painstaking to make mass edits to them.
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E A Misemer
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What does "backlog" mean?
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Pro Documentation
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Thanks for the information . am glad to be part of this community .
yours
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René Glaus
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I defently would really appricate such a function may be with an opportunity to get an overview where These measures are used in what visual.
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Menno ten Have
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Would be handy to include setting the formatting (Data Type / Format) of each measure
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Jon
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We really need this feature. It is painstaking to have to go through each measure and column one by one, and wait for PowerBI to process changes. In addition, I have to cleanup and reverse engineer many other reports, which often look like spaghetti code, and it's very difficult to click through each. It would save me a ton of time and effort to bulk edit, and see all calc columns and measures in a single window.
I would compare the current setup like writing code, and processing changes after each semicolon, rather than when I compile and execute. I know how all of the columns and measures interact, and how to debug any issues.
Import and export for calc columns and measures would be amazing. Export to something a text editor could open as well, like csv, json, or maybe even excel.
This would allow the group of analysts I work with to easily share standardized measures. -
Anonymous
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I would prefer an import/export functionality for measures. Would give me much more flexibility and would enable me to transfer measures between pbix files
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Aslak
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Thumbs up!
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Julian Payne commented
Please make this a priority!
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David Cresp
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@Charkes Stirling :-(
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Anonymous
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It's a great idea. If Dax editor looked like MDX editor in SSAS I would be happy
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Anonymous
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This is the capability that I have been waiting for , for some time,,,, very nice work on the mockk up
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William McNair
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Does moving to "Backlog" mean this feature suggestion go to the head of the line or does it get thrown into the back of the line never to be seen again. If the latter, how can we indicate that it is a very much needed feature? Is there a similar request in a different area?
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Ralf Hanrieder
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Great Mockup! This is exactly what we need!
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jsp.almeida1983
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Please Please advance this feature asap. Entire world will thank you so much. I’am sure of that.
Happy 2019!!
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Islam Sharaf
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Great Job!
Thanks everyone!